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Electric Car

BMW Revealed An All-electric Version of The British MINI

BMW has revealed an all-electric version of the British MINI. Manufacturing is set to commence late in 2019 in Oxfordshire. BMW intends having 25 electric vehic…

Energy Investment

Report on Solar Funding, Merger and Acquisitions Released During Second Quarter of 2019

Global clean energy consulting firm Mercom Capital Group has released its report on funding and merger and acquisition within the solar industry during the seco…

Crude

To Avoid Excess Stock Buildup, Saudi Oil Output to Remain Below 10 mil b/d

Saudi Arabia's oil production will remain below 10 million b/d through August and its exports will stay under 7 million b/d to avoid excess stock buildup in an …

Chinese Energy Policy Change Drags on Global 1H Renewables Spend

In Europe, Spain reeled in $3.7bn, up 235% on the same period a year earlier, and the UK was up 35%, at $2.5bn. But in the Netherlands investment was 41% lower …

Oil & Gas Trade

Oil Tanker Event Marked the Latest Escalation of Tensions in the Persian Gulf

Britain said Thursday that three Iranian vessels unsuccessfully tried to impede the passage of a British commercial vessel through the Strait of Hormuz, signali…

Gas Turbine

Siemens To Provide Key Components for 840MW Power Plant in Iraq

Global technology company Siemens has received a contract worth €280m ($313m) to deliver key components and long-term power generation services for the 840MW M…

Hydrogen Conference Held in Changchun

The 1st High-end Conference on Industrial Development in the China North Hydrogen Valley was held in Changchun, capital of Northeast China’s Jilin province, on…

Nuclear Equipment

US NRC Licensed The First Entirely Digital Nuclear Reactor I&C System

The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has licensed the first entirely digital nuclear reactor instrumentation and control (I&C) system in the USA, at a uni…

Transactions in Global Power M&A Market Reached $158bn in 2018

The global power mergers and acquisitions (M&A) market saw transaction volumes reaching $158 billion in 2018, the second-highest in the last five years, accordi…

Nuclear Fuel

European Parties to a Nuclear Deal with Iran Say They have “Deep Concern”

European powers accused Iran on Tuesday of “pursuing activities inconsistent with its commitments” under a 2015 nuclear deal and called for an urgent meeting …

China is the Key to Stopping Global Warming

Fulfilling the ultimate goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change will be impossible without dramatic action from the world's largest emitter of greenh…

LNG

The European Commission' s Latest Reports on Gas and Electricity Markets Covering the First Quarter of 2019

The European Commission’s latest reports on gas and electricity markets, which cover the first quarter of 2019, have just been published, containing a wide ran…

Offshore Wind Power

Vattenfall Cooperation with ORE Catapult Launch Offshore Wind Testing Programme

Swedish state-owned utility Vattenfall AB and UK research centre Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult today introduced a new GBP-1.5-million (USD 1.87m/EUR …

Offshore Wind Power

UK will Accept for Review 1.8-GW Norfolk Boreas Offshore Wind Project

The UK Planning Inspectorate has accepted for review Swedish utility Vattenfall’s development consent application for the 1.8-GW Norfolk Boreas wind farm off t…

EV Technology

UK Researchers Propose Cell Cooling Coefficient to Quantify Heat rejection from Li-ion Batteries

08 July 2019 in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society, researchers from Imperial College London and the Faraday Institution propose a new metric—the Cell …